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Lady Indians drop district game on the road

BAYARD The Cobre High girls basketball team dropped a District 3-2A game on the road Friday night. The Lady Indians fell, 64-36, to Hatch Valley. Cobre is 1-2 in district play and 6-15 overall.

The Lady Indians kept the game tight early, being outscored, 13-9, in the first stanza. The second period saw Hatch put up 19 points, while Cobre was right there with 12 points. The Lady Bears held a 32-21 lead at halftime.

The game started out pretty good, head coach Robert Benfield said. We did a pretty good job of keeping the game to 11 at halftime. But, once the third period came, the turnovers came, and we started to just give the ball away.

Hatch added 17 points in the third stanza, while Cobre followed, with 11. In the final period, the Lady Bears put up 15 points, compared to just four for the Lady Indians.

Once again, the wheels came off the bus in the third period, Benfield said. We had missed shots, turnovers, and everything that you could think of. They got up by as many as 28 points, and we cut the lead to 15, but we couldn t get any closer than that.

Cobre tallied 36 turnovers in the contest.

Marisa Macon led the Lady Indians, with 17 points, while Kayla Rodriguez followed, with eight, and Mariah Zamora and Paige Tovar had four points apiece. Kyla Maldonado scored two.

Cobre was to remain on the road and travel to face Socorro on Saturday in a non-district game.